UNIVERSITY ABOU BAKR BELKAID - TLEMCEN
Faculty of technology IGM
Mechanical Engineering Department 2025/2026
Tutorial N° 1
Exercise1
Match each description below with the following microscopic pictures. More than one picture
may fit each description. A picture may be used more than once or not used at all.
a. a gaseous compound
b. a mixture of two gaseous elements
c. a solid element
d. a mixture of a gaseous element and a gaseous compound
Exercise 2
a) What is the difference between homogeneous and heterogeneous matter? Classify
each of the following as homogeneous or heterogeneous.
a. a door
b. the air you breathe
c. a cup of coffee (black)
d. the water you drink
e. salsa
b) Classify each of the following as a mixture or a pure substance.
a. water f. uranium
b. blood g. wine
c. the oceans h. leather
d. iron i. table salt (NaCl)
e. steal
c) Of the pure substances, which are elements and which are compounds?
Exercise 3
Classify following as physical or chemical changes.
1- The melting of ice 5- Melt chocolate
2- Dissolution of table salt in water 6-The bleaching of a pair of jeans by bleach
3-Toast a slice of bread 7- Sugar caramelization
4-Cutting a sheet of cardboard.
Exercise 4
What amount (moles) are represented by each of these samples?
a. 150.0 g Fe2O3 c. 1.5 x1016 molecules of BF3
b. 10.0 mg NO2 D. 15 mL of H2SO4 d= 1,83 g/cm³
Exercise 5
What number of atoms of nitrogen are present in 5.00 g of each of the following?
a. Glycine, C2H5O2N c. Calcium nitrate
b. Magnesium nitride d. Dinitrogen tetroxide
, jExercise 6
For 1mL of water calculate
a- The corresponding mass of water b- The number of moles of oxygène
c- The number of moles of hydrogene d- The number of moles of
e- The number of moles of water f- The number of hydrogen atoms
g- The number of oxygen atoms
Data : ρ (H2O) = 1 g/cm3 ; M (H2O) =18 g/mol ; le nombre d’Avogadro= 6.023 1023mole.
Exercise 7
Balance the following reactions :
Fe2O3(s) + CO(g) Fe(s) + CO2(g)
C2H5OH(l) + O2(g) CO2(g) + H2O(l)
NH3(g) + O2(g) NO(g) + H2O(g)
Exercise 8
Aluminum chloride, AlCl3, is used as a catalyst in various industrial reactions. It is prepared
from hydrogen chloride gas and aluminum metal shavings.
Al(s) + HCl(g) AlCl3(s) +H2(g)
Suppose a reaction vessel contains 0.15 mol Al and 0.35 mol HCl. How many moles of
AlCl3 can be prepared from this mixture?
Exercise 9
Potassium superoxide, KO2, is used in rebreathing gas masks to generate oxygen.
KO2(s) +H2O(l ) KOH(s) + O2(g)
If a reaction vessel contains 0.25 mol KO2 and 0.15 mol H2O, what is the limiting
reactant? How many moles of oxygen can be produced?
What is the remaining quantity of H2O ?
Exercise 10
1) How many grams of Ni must be dissolved in 0.25 L of solution to create at 1 M Ni2+
solution ? (at. Wt Ni = 58.68 g/mol)
2) How many grams of NiCl2*6H2O must be dissolved in a 0.25 L solution to create 1 M
Ni(II) solution ? (at wt. Ni =58.68 g/mol ; MW NiCl2*6H2O = 237.64 g/mol)
3) You want to create a 0.2 M solution of Ni2+ in a 25 mL volumetric flask using the 1 M
solution prepared above. How would you go about making this solution ?
4) What is the concentration in ppm of Ni in the 0.2 M solution you just prepared ?
Exercise 11
In the label of a commercial solution flask of nitric acid HNO3, we find: mass percentage:
68,0 %; Density: d=1,41; Molar mass: M = 63,0 g/mol.
1. Demonstrate that the molar concentration of nitric acid in this commercial solution is 15
mol.L-1.
2. Determine the volume V0 (mL) of commercial solution that needs to be taken to prepare
V = 500 mL of nitric acid solution of concentration C = 1,0 mol/L.
3. Name this process
Exercise 12
[Link] the Normality of the solution containing 5.3 g/L of Na2CO3 (106 g/mol)
[Link] the Normality of a solution prepared by dissolving 75 g of solid Ba(NO3)2
(261.32 g /mol) into 374 g of water.
[Link] mass of an aqueous solution that contains 11.7 g of NaCl (58.5 g/mol) is 551.7 g .
Calculate the molality of the solution.
Exercise 13
Calculate the percent composition by mass of the following compounds that are important
starting materials for synthetic polymers:
a. C3H4O2 (acrylic acid, from which acrylic plastics are made)
b. C4H6O2 (methyl acrylate, from which Plexiglas is made)
c. C3H3N (acrylonitrile, from which Orlon is made)